Urgent Need of Ready Cash To Aid Sufferers Hsuchow, Nov. 21.
The flood situation in North Kiang-at present is more serious than at the beginning of the catastrophe. The flood area has during the past several days been daily widening owing to continual rise of levels of the various waterway:
Refugees in the Hsuchow and Hal-chow areas are in dire need of food and other relict measures, according to. telegrams sent by Mr. Cheng Ching-shen, member of the Shanghai Flood Relief Association, to Dr. H. Kung, Minister of Finance, and Mr. Hsiung Hsi-ling, chairman of the National Famine Relief Commission.
Mr, Cheng arrived here yesterday from Shanghai on a ood inspection Though the Government has issued '$19,000,000 flood relict bonds, Mr. Cheng asserted in his telegrams, what needed at present is ready cash for emergency relict of the refugees. in these regions.
Mr. Cheng mentioned in his wires that at east a sum of $3,000,000 in in required to enable the flood victims to engage in farming work this coming Winter and next Spring.
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